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Welcome to The Website of Far-Cue.It is with some considerable regret that Far-Cue have to announce that they are not supporting Hayseed Dixie at the Cheese and Grain in Frome as planned next week. Far-Cue are at the Wunderbar in Midsomer Norton, Thursday 21st of April. Get your asses down there. Tis a bank holiday the day after, so spend it hungover. Just a quick reminder in case you haven’t seen it on Faceache, we’re supporting Hayseed Dixie at The Cheese and Grain in Frome on the 26th of May. You can go here for the box office : http://www.cheeseandgrain.co.uk/box-office/ or you can phone them on 01373 455 420 It’ll be a good one... Here is a link to our bandcamp page. Here you can purchase many Far-Cue albums as downloads, and even individual tracks for 50p. Enjoy. http://far-cue.bandcamp.com/ In what we now refer to as ’the old days’, we used to enjoy playing new places and were asked to play them relatively often. Now, with the live music scene in Britain on its ass and people rightly cowering at the price of a pint, it can be a dodgy business taking your brand of punk rock to ’the people’, mainly because the people are at home where the beer is cheaper or are out but in a bad mood about the price of ale. So we got asked to play in Calne and thought it might be fun. Without a Battle Bus, Far-Cue now have to travel to gigs independently. A bit like The Eagles in their prime. Only The Eagles had limos, groupies and cocaine. I arrived in Calne and found the pub, but nowhere to park. Since I had heard from Badger on the way there, I knew he was already in the pub. I asked him where I should park and he gave me some bizarre instructions. Turns out, he was at the wrong pub. With Guy. Once we all finally assembled in the right pub, we were alarmed at the size of the room. There were many rooms in The Kings Arms, but they’d chosen the smallest to put the band in. Of course we should have took this as a blessing, as then it doesn’t need too many people to fill it up. There were a number of bikers there. They left after the first song. Bikers just aren’t what they used to be are they? Next time, we’ll work an Enya cover into the set. Half way through the set, we took a 20 minute interlude to play some songs we thought people might like. COmpletely off the cuff, we managed a bit of Smoke On The Water, Paranoid, Sweet Home Alabama, Enter Sandman, and various other bits and pieces. I don’t think it worked, but it was fun to do. There can come a point in a gig where you break through the ’Fuck It’ barrier. I think Badger is there most of the time, but for me I like to see an audience liking what we’re doing. If however, you try your best and are still going down like a lead welly, you just do what you do and if they don’t like it, use the door. We all definitely hit that point last night. Thankfully some friends did come along and there was a bit of a pit at the end. THEN Of course, we had that joyful moment every band loves. You work your ass off all night and get nothing, then you finish the last song and every one wants more. Well, you should have enjoyed what you got. Its not our fault you come alive when the last chord rings out. Sunday then, and we get to support Billy No Mates. Its not Snuff, but its as close as we’ll get... There’s been a few gigs come in recently, so here they are: Friday 25th March: The Three Horseshoes, Bradford-On-Avon Friday April 1st: The Kings Arms, Calne Sunday April 3rd: The Croft, Bristol (with Hacksaw and Billy No Mates) The last one is a bit exciting isn’t it? Not having a go at the other two of course, its always exciting to play The ’Shoes and its always exciting to play new places but...you know...its Billy. No contest. They’re all free to get in except Sunday, and I don’t yet know how much Sunday is. Sometimes though, financial transactions come secondary to memories. So get down there. Gigs for this year are proving rather elusive. A planned gig on the 25th of February which we were all looking forward to has sadly been cancelled since one of our members is fucking off to Europe for a week long tour. Selfish behaviour. I can reveal however, that our first gig of the year will be on March 4th at The Parson’s Nose in Melksham. Thankfully Big Rich is back doing what he does best. Which is running The Parson’s Nose in Melksham. We have no empirical evidence that this is what he does best, since we’ve only really seen him do this. But, he does this very well and if he does anything better, he should consider making a career out of that instead. Hope to see many, many people there. We really should book in a rehearsal beforehand. With all this exciting technology, its rather disappointing to note that no-one’s taken advantage of it. I can only assume that you wish to buy your new album from us in person. Handed over with the same sweaty, calloused mitts that created the sonic majesty burned - via laser (newly sharpened) - on to the disc. Frankly, I don’t blame you. A hard copy is many a splendid thing. Whilst this year is admittedly off to a slow start, late night / early-morning conversation between two members of ’Da ’Cue has resulted in the conclusion that Yes, things are slow now, but good things will happen. Patience may be both a virtue, and a ballad by Guns N Roses, but its also the only way to do things. So, in the meantime, enjoy the video and keep coming back. More bollox and bullshit from the world of toilet-spoof-pop-punk to follow. What would the world be like without Far-Cue? You don’t even want to know...whenever you’re feeling blue just think...we’re out there. Feel warm in that knowledge. We’ll be back soon to wrap your ears in cotton punk goodness. Sure things are tough now but they won’t be that way forever. Go on. Click on the video. Cheer yourself up a bit. Last night I went to an Italian restaurant. Sadly, there was a fat woman in the doorway and I couldn’t get pasta. So firstly let’s get the new album business out of the way. You can click this Buy It Now button: And pay a fiver and I will send you a link from which to download it. Failing that, come to one of our gigs and buy it from us in person. Failing that, you can drop me a line through this web site and I can arrange to get one sent to you in the post. Its a twelve tracker, with 10 Far-Cue penned songs and 2 covers. So yes, 5 pounds is a bargain. Here’s a trailer for it and hopefully soon I can piece together a video for one of the tracks using nothing but studio footage. How special will that be? Far-Cue Album Trailer from Steve Eaton on Vimeo. We’re currently looking at gigs for 2011. They’re not so easy to come by anymore, and without a van they’re even harder to get to, but we’re going to try very hard this year to play more often and hopefully in some different places. We’re back then. No, not another break, just a return to the web site. Facebook is so very suited to you young hipsters clutching your i-phones these days. No time have you? No time at all, just gotta get it done. Faceache serves you well. Myspace has gone. Pathetic attempts at copying Facebook have only rendered it obselete. Whilst Facebook is handy for being nosey, it is very limiting. As such, we thought it wise to get the old site up and running again. So here we are. Expect many updates over the next few days... Any comments please to steve@farcue.co.uk
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